Traveled to SLC for work Mon/Tues and had the opportunity for a concert Monday night. Unfortunately Wolfmother wasn’t playing until Tuesday – and that would’ve been too good to be true!
So when a Pollstar search turned up nothing, I e-mailed the music editors at the SL Tribune. Turns out Monday is a pretty slow night in this town, due to a practice known as family home evening, but they were able to refer me to Oakland’s Experimental Dental School playing at this hole called Kilby Court.
Tip #1: When Kilby’s Web site says they’ll start at 7:30, that’s when the music really starts.
In all the shows I’ve seen across the entire Midwest for a decade now, the opener usually starts an hour after doors open (usually later) and the headliner would never play before 10 p.m.
Well, I showed up at 9:30 and all three bands were done playing and almost all packed up.
Tip #2: Salt Lake City is serious about their family home evening, sound ordinances and getting in a concert before the sun sets.
The dude at the door said they only had 8 people show up anyway, but I was definitely disappointed. I missed EDS when they played the Triple Rock in Mpls last Monday and have been enjoying streaming their tracks online. Alas, I was back to my hotel by 10 p.m. and there wasn’t a single live music venue open at that time in the entire Salt Lake City metro area.
Tip #3: SLC’s music scene is actually worse than Des Moines’.
